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happy

/ˈhæpiː/
noun

  1. A happy event, thing, person, etc.

noun

  1. Preceded by the: happy people as a group.

verb

  1. Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.

  2. Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Synonymshappify
adjective

  1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.

    "Music makes me feel happy."

  2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

  3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

    "Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?"

Synonymscheerful, content, delighted, elated, exultant, glad
Antonymsinappropriate, inapt, unfelicitous, disenchanted, dissatisfied, blue

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